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Any tips on partnering with your Alumni Association?

Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Anne Cardale, OLLI National Resource Center

Sarah Benton, OLLI at Penn State Asks OLLI:

If you partner with your Alumni Association, can you tell me all the ways in which you partner?  Do you offer an OLLI/Alumni co-membership?  If some of your OLLIs didn’t graduate from your host university, will your Alumni Association recognize them as alums and allow them to join the Alumni Association because they are OLLI students?

Professional Development Management System

Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Julia Ridge, OLLI National Resource Center

Steve Benson, from OLLI at University of Minnesota, asks OLLI:

What kind of experience have other OLLIs had with the Lucid Data Corporation’s Professional Development Management System?

Non-affiliate Instructors Pay

Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Julia Ridge, OLLI National Resource Center

Nicole Marciano from OLLI at Santa Clara University asks OLLI:

How do OLLIs pay non-affiliate instructors? As independent contractors, as part-time university employees or other?